Eighteen-year-old elected as youngest state lawmaker in US history

I've heard of her before and am of course impressed that a young woman was elected to any kind of political office, though I was upset to hear that she's actually extremely conservative on many issues, including abortion. That doesn't jive too well with me but democracy and all I guess. Still pretty cool.

 

Trappings of power and all that jazz.

She will become an even worse person.

 

While she might be rather conservative (for many people's liking including my own. It would be nice to have someone more liberal), from what I can tell it's at least good that someone 18 years old is actually getting somewhere within politics. It's been said already, but the point still goes. It's not necessarily a bad thing to have someone of a younger generation in a fairly significant position like that. It's another sign that times are changing and new ideas and ways of thinking may start coming in. I'd like to think that this could be the start of a new trend and I hope it is, because having younger people in politics might allow governments to actually understand the current generations. I think that in many ways, the older generations are disconnected with the newer generations and while this isn't a drastically high position like a senator, it perhaps opens the way for younger people to enter the higher posts. It might change the way things are viewed by the government and cause a little more empathy towards younger people. That I believe, carries a lot of potential for the future.